¹⁶ King Solomon made 200 large shields of hammered gold, each weighing more than fifteen pounds.^[a]

²⁶ He ransacked the treasuries of the Lord’s Temple and the royal palace; he stole everything, including all the gold shields Solomon had made. ²⁷ King Rehoboam later replaced them with bronze shields as substitutes, and he entrusted them to the care of the commanders of the guard who protected the entrance to the royal palace. ²⁸ Whenever the king went to the Temple of the Lord, the guards would also take the shields and then return them to the guardroom.

⁹ So King Shishak of Egypt came up and attacked Jerusalem. He ransacked the treasuries of the Lord’s Temple and the royal palace; he stole everything, including all the gold shields Solomon had made. ¹⁰ King Rehoboam later replaced them with bronze shields as substitutes, and he entrusted them to the care of the commanders of the guard who protected the entrance to the royal palace.

¹⁵ King Solomon made 200 large shields of hammered gold, each weighing more than 15 pounds.^{[a] 16} He also made 300 smaller shields of hammered gold, each weighing more than 7 1⁄2 pounds.^[b] The king placed these shields in the Palace of the Forest of Lebanon.